Drug treatment of skin and soft tissue infections in elderly long-term care residents

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-121

  Lertzman, Beth H ^a   Gaspari, Anthony A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Departments of Pathology Urology and Radiation Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CEFALEXIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FUSIDIC ACID; HYDROXYZINE; IMIDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; KETOCONAZOLE; LINDANE; NAFCILLIN; NEOMYCIN; NYSTATIN; PENICILLIN G; PERMETHRIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CELLULITIS; DERMATOMYCOSIS; ERYSIPELAS; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; INFESTATION; LONG TERM CARE; LOUSE; MYCOSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PEDICULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCABIES; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN ULCER; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SUPERINFECTION; THRUSH; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029779348     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199609020-00006     Document Type: Review

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